Someone that makes an apartment building unlivable is probably mentally ill. The amount of disruption necessary to make an SRO unlivable is much much much lower

Someone that makes an apartment building unlivable is probably mentally ill. The amount of disruption necessary to make an SRO unlivable is much much much lower. Failing to clean up after yourself in the kitchen or bathroom; playing loud music or coming and going at odd hours, even things like having frequent visitors can be enough. SROs and boarding houses used to have all sorts of "unreasonable" restrictions because of the close quarters, and not having those restrictions makes this untenable. Yes, this power will be abused arbitrarily by managers/landlords in racist and classist and ethno-cist (is that a word?) ways. Attempting to prevent that will lead to the same regulatory quagmires that got these things banned in the first place. You just have to accept the mild social injustice. If you cannot then SROs will have to be banned.